Argentina (AR) — civil law.

Nothing on this page describes United States practice. There is no certificate sold to an investor, no administrative sale of land for unpaid tax, and no redemption window after a subasta judicial in Argentina. If you arrived carrying US assumptions, read falsos-amigos first.

Oficio de inscripción — registering a subasta purchase without an escritura

Ordinary Argentine conveyancing runs through an escribano: the escritura pública (CCyC 1017) is the registrable document. An auction buyer has no seller to sign one. His route into the Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble is the oficio judicial — a formal communication from the executing court to the registry — carrying a testimonio of the judicial record. The registry law was written to receive it.

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